The beginning of the end is setting in for Hugo Chavez. The authoritarian Venezuelan president is holding a referendum Sunday on a constitutional change that would allow him to run for president indefinitely. Pollsters say Chavez leads slightly, but the election is mostly irrelevant. Barring an oil miracle, the former army paratrooper is slowly imploding on the spike of his economic mismanagement and corruption, like any of a number of populist strongmen before him. Oil prices may recover some from their current lows of around $40 a barrel, but not soon and not anywhere near the more than $80 a...

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PoliCon

02-13-2009, 01:12 AM

won't it be refreshing to see them desecrating his dead body in the streets . . . . . :deep sigh:

Apocalypse

02-13-2009, 02:01 AM

I'm sure he'll try the same trick Mugabe did, declaring certain people to be a "threat" or non citizen, steal every thing they have to use as a bribe to those who keep him in power. Liberal use of unnecessary force. Which will be easy with those Russian AK-47 factories in his nation.